Very Good Quotes

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

A bad boy can be very good for a girl.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!

We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

Reading is very good. And you can quote me!

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond favourably.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really need a toothbrush, as most places you go to have a bar of soap and some shampoo.

Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.